In the Hamburg citizenship, the AfD failed on Wednesday with its attempt that the Senate should declare itself to turn around in the Easter lockdown. Instead, there was heated discussion of climate protection in the current hour.
The Greens and CDU in the Hamburg citizenship fought an exchange of blows. Dominik Lorenzen, group leader of the Greens, accused the Union of having, in the more than 15 years of the federal government, only replaced the goals of limiting global warming with new ones that lay in the “ever wider future”. “You, dear Union, are the party of ’empty promises’,” he said. Climate change is no longer abstract, but has already fully captured Hamburg.
CDU speaks of “shop window politics”
The climate protection expert of the CDU parliamentary group, Stephan Gamm, accused the Greens of having only put climate protection “in the preliminary phase of the election campaign” on the agenda of the current hour in order to show “that you still exist in times of the pandemic “. With a view to the coal-fired power station Moorburg, which recently went offline, and the still running coal-fired power station in Wedel, he spoke of “shop window politics without effect”.
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Kerstan sees himself as a pacemaker
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees “is a huge challenge, but also an urgent necessity,” said Environment Senator Jens Kerstan (Greens). He praised himself as setting the pace for the ecological restructuring of the energy supply in northern Germany and made the CDU responsible in the federal government for ensuring that things did not go any faster.
The CDU MP Gamm did not want to let that sit on him: “In no country in the world are their own successes in climate protection as little appreciated as we are. And you have a very significant part in that,” he said in the direction of the Greens.
AUDIO: Controversy about climate policy in the citizenry (1 min)
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Left: Senate is doing too little
The ecological restructuring of society must also be affordable for each individual – the SPD claimed that in the debate. The AfD, on the other hand, emphasized that the climate change is causing the economy to stumble and that renewable energies are too expensive. The left accused the Senate of doing far too little. Hamburg should be climate-neutral by 2035 at the latest – citizens would have to have a say in the restructuring of the economy and the city.
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